Prague Biennale

2nd PRAGUE BIENNALE 2005

26 May - 15 Sep 2005

Prague Biennale Foundation is proud to present the second edition of the Prague Biennale, curated by Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova, following the enormous success of the first Biennale.

Prague Biennale 2 will take place in a vast post-industrial space that has been specifically adapted for what will be the largest exhibition in Europe dedicated to today's painting, demonstrating the crossing of styles, techniques, cultures and traditions in contemporary art.

PRAGUE BIENNALE 2 will focus on two main themes: Expanded Painting - Painting and Aroundand Acción Directa, art as political action

EXPANDED PAINTING (curated by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, along with the collaboration of a distinguished team of critics and artists) includes more than 100 artists representative of the most recent developments and latest trends in painting. The exhibition addresses to the relationships between painting and other media.

NEW GERMAN PAINTING - The Leipzig and Dresden 'schools' (curated by Johannes Schmidt) Thorugh the latest generation of German painters, this exhibition aims to investigate two of the most significant schools in current painting, which were started by masters such as Neo Rauch and Eberhard Havekost.

NORMAL GROUP (curated by Luca Beatrice) A presentation of the artist group Normal, which was founded by two Czech painters, Milan Kunc and Jan Knap, with their German colleague Peter Angermann in the 1980s.

TRIBUTE TO GIAN MARCO MONTESANOA selection of some of the Italian master's most extraordinary paintings.

CHINA: New Perspectives in Chinese Painting (curated by Primo Marella) The latest pictorial trends in China, promising to be a real surprise for Europe.

ACCIÓN DIRECTA: Latin American Social Sphere (curated by Marco Scotini). A study of the relationship between artistic production and political action in countries such as Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina.